Appeal No. 2003-0267
Application 09/427,229
provide additional surface area to assist in the locking
function, and therefore may be varied as required and
are in no way limiting. Thus, the flanges can have a
plurality of indentations disposed in the flange top and
bottom surfaces with openings extending to the interior
facing surface. Additionally, the indentations can be
circular, trapezoidal, or rectangular in shape.
Furthermore, the indentations disposed in the top
surface with interior facing openings can be offset from
the indentations with interior facing openings in the
bottom surface. Also, the indentations disposed in the
top and bottom surfaces with interior facing openings
can have a depth of from 1/10th to 1/2 of the thickness
of the flange [column 5, line 60, through column 6, line
22].
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). It is not necessary that the
reference teach what the subject application teaches, but only
that the claim read on something disclosed in the reference,
i.e., that all of the limitations in the claim be found in or
fully met by the reference. Kalman v. Kimberly Clark Corp., 713
F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,
465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
As framed by the appellants (see page 3 in the brief), the
dispositive issue in the appeal is whether Jabbari meets the
limitation in independent claim 1, and the corresponding
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